Dinesh Chakka

• Identified cost-saving opportunities and implemented targeted measures, resulting in significant savings for organization, enhancing profitability and financial sustainability through thorough analysis of financial and operational data.
• Facilitating swift and informed decision-making through timely delivery of accurate ad hoc reports and insightful analyses within tight deadlines.
• Enhanced budgeting process by implementing standardized templates and refining data collection methods, resulting in 25% reduction in preparation time and ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
• Skilled in Excel, ERP systems, and adept at resolving complex Excel modelling issues.
• Strengthened internal communication between finance department and other business units, fostering collaboration towards shared objectives.
• Developed monthly variance reports to track actual performance against projected budgets, facilitating corrective action when necessary.
• Translated complex data into actionable intelligence for senior management, facilitating strategic decision-making aligned with organizational goals and long-term success.
• Cultivate collaborative partnerships with external and internal stakeholders.
• Reduced manual workloads through the implementation of automation tools for routine FP&A tasks.
• Perform monthly reconciliations for intercompany accounts, ensuring accurate recording and elimination of balances across balance sheet and income statement items.
• By leveraging Power Query and Advanced Excel, I automated more than 10 labor-intensive tasks, resulting in 75% reduction in reconciliation time.
• Analyses payment data sets to detect trends, patterns, and anomalies in payment behaviors.
• Perform multiple verifications between different Payment service providers platforms and bank settlements.
• Effectively managed large datasets comprising 5 million observations, employing fortnight expressions for quality control and selecting key variables for constructing statistical logic models.
• Worked closely with senior payment strategy team to develop pricing models for negotiations with payment service providers.

Corporate Development Department

• Support Corporate Development Manager in financial analysis, target selection, market research, and valuation processes.
• Perform comprehensive market analysis to grasp industry trends and competitive landscape.
• Develop regression models, conduct peer comparisons, and utilize Monte Carlo simulations with Python, among other analytical methods.
• Assisted in preparation of presentations, data tables and other documents for investor meetings.

• Collected, scrubbed, modeled, and scrutinized both structured and unstructured data to bolster essential business endeavors.
• Identified and defined new opportunities for process improvement.
• Conducted analysis on current and historical financial data.
• Reviewed company accounts and data.
• Developed and improved integrated reporting and analysis capabilities.

• Established sales goals by forecasting annual sales quotas and projecting expected sales volume for existing and new products.
• Perform Financial Forecasting, reporting, and operational metrics tracking.
• Increase productivity by developing automated reporting/forecasting tools.
• Identify and drive process improvements, including creation of standard and ad-hoc reports, tools, and Excel dashboards.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports, Reconcile bank statements.
• Analyze past results, perform variance analysis, identify trends, and make recommendations for improvements.
• Prior experience with MS SQL/VBA/data visualization tools ( Power BI, TABLEAU)
• Experience in high data volume environment.
• Knowledge of financial systems including SAP B1.
• Assist with other tasks as requested.